- The true riches Eph 3:8; 1Co 1:30; Col 2:3; 1Pe 2:7
- God gives 1Sa 2:7; Ec 5:19
- To God belongs this world's riches Hag 2:8
- God gives power to obtain De 8:18
- The blessing of the Lord brings Pr 10:22
- Give worldly power Pr 22:7
- DESCRIBED AS
- Temporary Pr 27:24
- Uncertain 1Ti 6:17
- Unsatisfying Ec 4:8; 5:10
- Corruptible Jas 5:2; 1Pe 1:18
- Fleeting Pr 23:5; Re 18:16,17
- Deceitful Mt 13:22
- Liable to be stolen Mt 6:19
- Perishable Jer 48:36
- Thick clay Hab 2:6
- Often an obstruction to the reception of the gospel Mr 10:23-25
- Deceitfulness of, chokes the word Mt 13:22
- The love of, the root of all evil 1Ti 6:10
- OFTEN LEAD TO
- Pride Eze 28:5; Ho 12:8
- Forgetting God De 8:13,14
- Denying God Pr 30:8,9
- Forsaking God De 32:15
- Rebelling against God Ne 9:25,26
- Rejecting Christ Mt 19:22; 10:22
- Self-sufficiency Pr 28:11
- Anxiety Ec 5:12
- An overbearing spirit Pr 18:23
- Violence Mic 6:12
- Oppression Jas 2:6
- Fraud Jas 5:4
- Sensual indulgence Lu 16:19; Jas 5:5
- Life consists not in abundance of Lu 12:15
- Be not over-anxious for Pr 30:8
- Labour not for Pr 23:4
- THEY WHO COVET
- Fall into temptation and a snare 1Ti 6:9
- Fall into hurtful lusts 1Ti 6:9
- Err from the faith 1Ti 6:10
- Use unlawful means to acquire Pr 28:20
- Bring trouble on themselves 1Ti 6:10
- Bring trouble on their families Pr 15:27
- Profit not in the day of wrath Pr 11:4
- Cannot secure prosperity Jas 1:11
- Cannot redeem the soul Ps 49:6-9; 1Pe 1:18
- Cannot deliver in the day of God's wrath Zep 1:18; Re 6:15-17
- THEY WHO POSSESS, SHOULD
- Ascribe them to God 1Ch 29:12
- Not trust in them Job 31:24; 1Ti 6:17
- Not set the heart on them Ps 62:10
- Not boast of obtaining them De 8:17
- Not glory in them Jer 9:23
- Not hoard them up Mt 6:19
- Devote them to God's service 1Ch 29:3; Mr 12:42-44
- Give of them to the poor Mt 19:21; 1Jo 3:17
- Use them in promoting the salvation of others Lu 16:9
- Be liberal in all things 1Ti 6:18
- Esteem it a privilege to be allowed to give 1Ch 29:14
- Not to be high-minded 1Ti 6:17
- When converted, rejoice in being humbled Jas 1:9,10
- Heavenly treasures superior to Mt 6:19,20
- Of the wicked laid up for the just Pr 13:22
- THE WICKED
- Often increase in Ps 73:12
- Often spend their day in Job 21:13
- Swallow down Job 20:15
- Trust in the abundance of Ps 52:7
- Heap up Job 27:16; Ps 39:6; Ec 2:26
- Keep, to their hurt Ec 5:13
- Boast themselves in Ps 49:6; 52:7
- Profit not by Pr 11:4; 13:7; Ec 5:11
- Have trouble with Pr 15:6; 1Ti 6:9,10
- Must leave, to others Ps 49:10
- Vanity of heaping up Ps 39:6; Ec 5:10,11
- Guilt of trusting in Job 31:24,28; Eze 28:4,5,8
- Guilt of rejoicing in Job 31:25,28
- DENUNCIATIONS AGAINST THOSE WHO
- Get, by vanity Pr 13:11; 21:6
- Get, unlawfully Jer 17:11
- Increase, by oppression Pr 22:16; Hab 2:6-8; Mic 2:2,3
- Hoard up Ec 5:13,14; Jas 5:3
- Trust in Pr 11:28
- Receive their consolation Lu 6:24
- Abuse Jas 5:1,5
- Spend, upon their appetite Job 20:15-17
- Folly and danger of trusting to-Illustrated Lu 12:16-21
- Danger of misusing-Illustrated Lu 16:19-25
- Examples of saints possessing
- Abram Ge 13:2
- Lot Ge 13:5,6
- Isaac Ge 26:13,14
- Jacob Ge 32:5,10
- Joseph Ge 45:8,13
- Boaz Ru 2:1
- Barzillai 2Sa 19:32
- Shunammite 2Ki 4:8
- David 1Ch 29:28
- Jehoshaphat 2Ch 17:5
- Hezekiah 2Ch 32:27-29
- Job Job 1:3
- Joseph of Arimathea Mt 27:57
- Zacchaeus Lu 19:2
- Dorcas Ac 9:36
- Examples of those truly rich Mt 5:8; 8:10; 13:45,46; Lu 10:42; Joh 1:45; Php 3:8; Jas 2:5; 1Pe 2:7; Re 3:18
- Examples of wicked men possessing
- Laban Ge 30:30
- Esau Ge 36:7
- Nabal 1Sa 25:2
- Haman Es 5:11
- Ammonites Jer 49:4
- People of Tyre Eze 28:5
- Young man Mt 19:22
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